East bank of St. Mary River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.4° N, 112.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.1° N, 78.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 5.0 m above the base of the Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: E. L. Nicholls, T. T. Tokaryk, and L. V. Hills. 1990. Cretaceous marine turtles from the Western Interior Seaway of Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27(10):1288-1298 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23367: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 12.07.2002, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Lophochelys sp. Zangerl 1953 sea turtle